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None of Toyin Falola’s extensive writings seem to have been cited by as many diverse academic disciplines as The Power of African Cultures.1 The book has been cited in the fields of political science, gender studies, business management, language studies, agricultural economics, history, literature, education, and religion.2 Also noteworthy is the concise review by Kenella A. Jackson Jr. in the October 2005 edition of the American Historical Review. 3 Despite these significant and diverse interests, no single work has provided a systematic analysis of the book. This chapter seeks to fill this gap in the literature. The thrust of the analysis here is to apply the concept of diegetic analysis to make sense of the book’s contents and methodology. I also should mention here that the theoretical and methodological notions upon which the discourse in this chapter hinges can be found in two of my works on the subiect.4
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Toyin Falola, The Power of African Cultures (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003).
See, for example, in political science, Wafula Okomu and Augustine Okelegbe, eds., Militias, Rebels and Islamist Militants: Human Insecurity and State Crises in Africa (Cape Town, South Africa: Institute for Security Studies, 2010); in gender studies,
Grace Bos Ibori Nyamongo, “Gendered Silence: Sexual Violence against Women during Ethnic Conflicts in Kenya” Asian Women 23, no. 4 (2007): 1–132; in business management,
Luchien Karsten and Bartjan Pennink, “Total Quality Management in theAfrican Business Community of Burkina Faso: A Change in Perspective on Knowledge Development,” CDS Research Report no. 25 (Groningen, Netherlands: University of Groningen, 2012); in language studies,
Annah Molosiwa, “Revitalising and Sustaining Botswana Cultures through the Secondary School Curriculum: A Myth or Reality?” Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 40, no. 1 (2009): 80–91; in agricultural economics,
G. R. Backeberg, “Research Management of Water Economics in Agriculture—an Open Agenda.” Agrekon: Agricultural Economics Research, Policy and Practice in Southern Africa 43, no. 3 (2004): 357–74; in history,
Versão Temporária Nâo Cite, “Elites em sâo tome e prícípe: Os lastros da histbria, as peias do presente,” Proceedings of CODESRIA 13th General Assembly (Rabat, Morocco: CODESRIA, 2011); in literature,
Brandi Bingham Kellett, “Haunting Witnesses: Diasporic Consciousness in African American and Caribbean Writing,” PhD dissertation (University of Miami, 2010); in education,
Ademola O. Dasylva, “‘Culture Education’ and the Challenge of Globalization in Modern Nigeria.” Oral Tradition 21, no. 2 (2006): 325–41; and in religion,
Christopher Putchinski Beats, “African Religious Integration in Florida during the First Spanish Period,” Master’s thesis (University of Central Florida, Orlando, 2007).
Kennell A. Jackson Jr., “Review of The Power of African Cultures, by Toyin Falola.” American Historical Review 110, no. 4 (October 2005): 1292–3.
Abdul Karim Bangura and Erin McCandless, Peace Research for Africa: Critical Essays on Methodology (Geneva, Switzerland: United Nations University for Peace Press, 2007): 186–8;
Abdul Karim Bangura, “A Diegetic Analysis of the Scholarly Works of Six ATWS/ASRF Women: Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, Theodora Ayot, Doyin Coker-Kolo, Rita Kiki Edozie, Mueni wa Muiu, and Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome.” Journal of Third World Studies 27, no. 2 (Fall 2010): 11–44.
Edward BurnettTylor, Primitive Culture (1871; reprint, NewYork: J. B. Putnam Sons, 1920), 1.
John Macionis, Society: The Basics, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2000), 35.
David Sills, “Cultural Relativism,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (New York: Crowell Collier and Macmillan, 1968), 543.
Melville Herskovits, Man and His Works: The Science of Cultural Anthropology (New York: Knopf, 1948).
Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes, “Linguistic Relativity in the History of Linguistic Anthropology,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (New York: Elsevier Science, 2001), 8901.
Chris Swoyer, “The Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis,” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001), 2.
Agner Fog, Cultural Selection (Munich: Kluwer Academic, 1999), 9.
Edward Hall and Mildred Hall, Understanding Cultural Differences (Garden City, NY: Intercultural Press, 1990), 106.
Clark Leonard Hull, A Behavior System: An Introduction to Behavior Theory concerning the Individual Organism (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1952), 183.
Abdul Karim Bangura and Erin McCandless, Peace Research for Africa: Critical Essays on Methodology (Geneva: United Nations University for Peace Press, 2007), 186–9
and Cesare Segre, Introduction to the Analysis of the Literary Text (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), 232–3.
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Bangura, A.K. (2015). The Power of African Cultures: A Diegetic Analysis. In: Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137492708_10
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